Dear All, I've recently seen this announcement and wondered whether this is an opportunity to move forward with the "good enough practices"?
My impression was that this has gone a bit quiet, and I thought it might benefit from having e.g. a panel discussion? Best regards, Jan On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 03:34:03PM +0000, Karen Cranston wrote: > The 4th Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science meeting is co-located > this year with the 1st Research Software Engineers conference in > Manchester. These should be good opportunities for SWC and DC folks! > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Daniel S. Katz <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:11 AM > Subject: [WSSSPE] Call for Submissions: 4th Workshop on Sustainable > Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE4) > To: Working on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experience < > [email protected]> > > > > > *Call for Submissions:4th Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: > Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE4)* > (http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe4/) > > Location: School of Computer Science, Kilburn and IT Buildings, University > of Manchester, Manchester, UK > Dates: 2 ?? days from Sept. 12th noon ??? Sept. 14th 5 pm, 2016 > Immediately preceding and co-located in Manchester with First Conference of > Research Software Engineers > (RSE Conference) (Sept 15-16 at Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, > UK) > > Follow @wssspe, tweet with #wssspe > > A nominal registration fee may be charged. > > *Abstract:* > > Progress in scientific research is dependent on the quality and > accessibility of research software at all levels. It > is now critical to address many new challenges related to the development, > deployment, maintenance, and > sustainability of open-use research software: the software upon which > specific research results rely. Open-use > software means that the software is widely accessible (whether open source, > shareware, or commercial). > Research software means that the choice of software is essential to > specific research results; using different > software could produce different results. > > In addition, it is essential that scientists, researchers, and students are > able to learn and adopt a new set of > software-related skills and methodologies. Established researchers are > already acquiring some of these skills, > and in particular, a specialized class of software developers is emerging > in academic environments who are an > integral and embedded part of successful research teams. WSSSPE provides a > forum for discussion of these > challenges, including both positions and experiences, and a forum for the > community to assemble and act. > > WSSSPE4 will consist of two separate tracks with some joint sessions: > > Track 1 ??? Building a sustainable future for open-use research software has > the goals of defining a vision of the > future of open-use research software, and in the workshop, initiating the > activities that are needed to get there. > The idea of this track is to first think about where we want to be 5 to 10 > years from now, without being too > concerned with where we are today, and then to determine how we can move to > this future. > > Track 2 ??? Practices & experiences in sustainable scientific software has > the goal of improving the quality of > today???s research software and the experiences of its developers by sharing > practices and experiences. This > track is focused on the current state of scientific software and what we > can do to improve it in the short term, > starting with where we are today. > > *Topics of interest include but are not limited to:* > > ??? Development and Community > ??? Best practices for developing sustainable software > ??? Models for funding specialist expertise in software collaborations > ??? Software tools that aid sustainability > ??? Academia/industry interaction > ??? Refactoring/improving legacy scientific software > ??? Engineering design for sustainable software > ??? Metrics for the success of scientific software > ??? Adaptation of mainstream software practices for scientific software > ??? Professionalization > ??? Career paths > ??? RSE as a brand > ??? RSE outside of the UK or Europe > ??? Increase incentives in publishing, funding and promotion for better > software > ??? Training > ??? Training for developing sustainable software > ??? Curriculum for software sustainability > ??? Credit > ??? Making the existing credit and citation ecosystem work better for > software > ??? Future credit and citation ecosystem > ??? Software contributions as a part of tenure review > ??? Case studies of receiving credit for software contributions > ??? Awards and recognition that encourage sustainable software > ??? Software publishing > ??? Journals and alternative venues for publishing software > ??? Review processes for published software > ??? Software discoverability/reuse > ??? Proposals and case studies > ??? Reproducibility and testing > ??? Reproducibility in conferences and journals > ??? Best practices for code testing and code review > > > *Important Dates:* > ??? Submission of lightning talks: July 10 > ??? Submission of Track 1 idea papers: July 10 > ??? Submission of Track 2 position papers, experience papers, presentations > of previously > published works, and demos: July 10 > ??? Submission of travel support requests: July 10 > ??? Lightning talk decisions announced: Aug 1 > ??? Track 1 idea papers decisions announced: Aug 1 > ??? Track 2 position papers, experience papers, presentations of previously > published works, > and demo decisions announced: Aug 1 > ??? Travel support decisions announced: Aug 2 > > > *Submission types and formats:* > ??? Lightning talks: a short paper, up to 2 pages, that if accepted can be > conveyed in a 5 to 7 minute talk, > either on Track 1: Building a sustainable future for open-use research > software or Track 2: Practices & experiences > in sustainable scientific software. Lightning talks may be based on > either novel or previously published work, but > must contain a core idea that will contribute to the discussion in the > workshop. > ??? Idea papers: a longer paper, up to 8 pages, that presents implementable > proposals related to Track 1: Building a > sustainable future for open-use research software. Track 1 participants > will build on the proposals and ideas in > these papers, with the goal of initiating the planning, development, and > execution of some of the ideas during the > workshop itself. Given the magnitude and importance of the task at hand, > the WSSSPE4 organizing committee > encourages these proposals to be developed on an open, public, and > inclusive basis. Submitters are invited to > present a vision of some aspect of the future of open-use research > software, and a plan of activities to gather and > organize the resources needed to get there. > Example idea paper topics: > ??? Adaptation of industrial software engineering principles into the > research software community with a plan to > fund the work > ??? Funding and scaling software carpentry style training in advanced topics > ??? Infrastructure and funding for community maintenance of open use research > software > ??? Scaling the SSI beyond the UK > ??? Specific proposals of how to bridging/network the various research > software engineering communities in scalable > manner without destroying independence and unique foci of each > community > ??? Position papers: a longer paper, not previously published, up to 8 pages, > that if accepted can be conveyed in > a 15 to 20 minute talk, on Track 2: Practices & experiences in > sustainable scientific software, specifically discussing > what we can do to improve sustainable scientific software in the short > term, starting with where we are today. > ??? Experience papers: a longer paper, not previously published, up to 8 > pages, that if accepted can be conveyed > in a 15 to 20 minute talk, on Track 2: Practices & experiences in > sustainable scientific software, specifically discussing > current practices and experiences and how they have been used to improve > the quality of today???s research software > and/or the experiences of its developers. > ??? Presentation of previously published work: a short paper, up to 2 pages, > that if accepted can be conveyed in > a 15 to 20 minute talk, describing a previous published work by the > authors and its relevance to Track 2: Practices & > experiences in sustainable scientific software on the topic of improving > the quality of today???s research software and > the experiences of its developers by sharing practices and experiences. > ??? Demos: a short paper, up to 2 pages plus 2 pages of screenshots, that if > accepted can be conveyed in a 10 to > 15 minute demonstration, showing a tool or process relevant to Track 2: > Practices & experiences in sustainable > scientific software, that improves the quality of today???s research > software and/or the experiences of its developers. > Demo submissions may be based on previously published work. > > > *Submission process:*All submissions should be created in PDF format. They > should begin with a title, author names and affiliations, a short > abstract, then the body of the submission. The title should begin with > ???Lightning talk:??? or ???Position paper:??? or > ???Experience paper:??? or ???Idea paper:??? or ???Previously published:??? or > ???Demo:???. Submissions should also include a statement > of their license, preferably CC BY 4.0. Submissions should be made via > https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wssspe4. > WSSSPE4 accepted submissions (except presentations of previously published > work) will be published by WSSSPE as a > special collection in http://ceur-ws.org/. Authors retain copyright to > their work and are free to self-publish their submissions > or accepted papers elsewhere in addition. > > > > *Preliminary Agenda:* > Sept 12 pm ??? Joint session of both tracks > > Introduction > Keynote > Lightning talks > Updates on actions and activities from WSSSPE3 working groups > Discussion and planning for the remainder of WSSSPE4 > > Sept 13 (all day) and 14 (until 3 pm) ??? Parallel tracks > > Track 1: This will be a set of working sessions with a facilitated > discussion, breakout sessions, report backs, and active > writing towards the track goal of defining a vision of the future of > open-use research software, and a plan of activities that > are needed to get there. > Track 2: presentations of position papers, experience papers, previously > published works, and demos; and breakout > sessions or unconference sessions. > > Sept 14 (1:30 pm ??? 5 pm) ??? Joint session of both tracks > > Panel on best practices > Summary and discussion of each tracks??? progress > Planning for future events > > > *Organizing Committee:* > ??? Gabrielle Allen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA > ??? Jeffrey Carver, University of Alabama, USA > ??? Sou-Cheng T. Choi, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA > ??? Tom Crick, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK > ??? Michael R. Crusoe, Common Workflow Language project > ??? Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA > ??? Robert Haines, University of Manchester, UK > ??? Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratory, USA > ??? Lorraine J. Hwang, University of California, Davis, USA > ??? Daniel S. Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA > ??? Kyle E. Niemeyer, Oregon State University, USA > ??? Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA > ??? Colin C. Venters, University of Huddersfield, UK > > *Program Committee:* > ??? (in progress, see web site for additions) > ??? David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia > ??? Lorena A. Barba, George Washington University, USA > ??? Ross Bartlett, Sandia National Laboratories, USA > ??? Christoph Becker, University of Toronto, Canada > ??? David Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA > ??? Stefanie Betz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany > ??? Coral Calero, Universidad Castilla La Mancha, Spain > ??? Ishwar Chandramouli, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of > Health, USA > ??? Ruzanna Chitchyan, University of Leicester, UK > ??? Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute, University of > Edinburgh, UK > ??? Karen Cranston, Duke University, USA > ??? Ewa Deelman, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern > California, USA > ??? Dave De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK > ??? Charlie E. Dibsdale, O-Sys, Rolls Royce PLC, UK > ??? Alberto Di Meglio, CERN, Switzerland > ??? Anshu Dubey, Argonne National Laboratory, USA > ??? Nadia Eghbal, Independent Researcher (via Ford Foundation), USA > ??? Martin Fenner, DataCite, Germany > ??? David Gavaghan, University of Oxford, UK > ??? Mike Glass, Sandia National Laboratories, USA > ??? Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK > ??? Joshua Greenberg, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, USA > ??? Michael K Griffiths, University of Sheffield, UK > ??? James Hetherington, University College London, UK > ??? Fred J. Hickernell, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA > ??? Caroline Jay, University of Manchester, UK > ??? Matthew B. Jones, University of California Santa Barbara, USA > ??? Nick Jones, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), NZ > ??? Jong-Suk Ruth Lee, National Institute of Supercomputing and Networking, > KISTI (Korea Institute > of Science and Technology Information), Korea > ??? Sedef Akinli Kocak, Ryerson University, Canada > ??? James Lin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China > ??? Frank L??ffler, Louisiana State University, USA > ??? Gregory Madey, University of Notre Dame, USA > ??? Ketan Maheshwari, University of Pittsburgh, USA > ??? Steven Manos, University of Melbourne, Australia > ??? Chris A. Mattmann, NASA JPL & University of Southern California, USA > ??? Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, Mozilla Science Lab, USA > ??? Robert H. McDonald, Indiana University, USA > ??? Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory, USA > ??? Chris Mentzel, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, USA > ??? Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge, UK > ??? Christopher R. Myers, Cornell University, USA > ??? Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA > ??? Cameron Neylon, Curtin University, Australia > ??? Aleksandra Pawlik, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), NZ > ??? Fernando Perez, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & University of > California, Berkeley, USA > ??? Marian Petre, The Open University, UK > ??? Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA > ??? Andreas Prlic, University of California, San Diego, USA > ??? Karthik Ram, University of California, Berkeley, USA > ??? Morris Riedel, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany > ??? Norbert Seyff, University of Zurich, Switzerland > ??? Arfon Smith, GitHub Inc, USA > ??? Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA > ??? Edgar Spalding, University of Wisconsin, USA > ??? Maria Spichkova, RMIT University, Australia > ??? Victoria Stodden, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA > ??? Matthew Turk, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA > ??? Ewout van den Berg, IBM Watson, USA > ??? Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of > California, San Diego, USA > ??? James Willenbring, Sandia National Laboratories, USA > ??? Scott Wilson, Cetis LLP, UK > ??? Theresa Windus, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory, USA > > -- > Daniel S. Katz > Assistant Director for Scientific Software and Applications, NCSA > Research Associate Professor, ECE > Research Associate Professor, GSLIS > University of Illinois > (217) 244-8000 > [email protected] or [email protected] > http://danielskatz.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > WSSSPE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.researchcomputing.org.uk/listinfo.cgi/wssspe-researchcomputing.org.uk > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss -- +- Jan T. Kim -------------------------------------------------------+ | email: [email protected] | | WWW: http://www.jtkim.dreamhosters.com/ | *-----=< hierarchical systems are for files, not for humans >=-----* _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
